Word: puritanly
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...patience and mildness, but calm, even cool, in temperament. Probably English Art Historian John Pope-Hennessy comes closest to the mark: "For all the translucent surface of his paintings, for all his rapturous pleasure in the natural world, there lay concealed, within Angelico's artistic personality, a Puritan faithful to his own intransigent ideal of reformed religious...
...shown by the case of Roger Williams, who founded America's first Baptist church (though he abandoned the Baptist persuasion within a few months to become a "Seeker" or Independent). He landed in Boston in 1631, having come from England under the impression that he was a Puritan, but almost at once he was at loggerheads with Boston's Puritan clergy...
...Bird in Puritan Cage. In the main, Santayana bit his tongue and bided his time until his savings and a bequest made him modestly independent. In 1912, at the age of 47, he set off to live in Europe for the rest of his life. Escaped from his Puritan cage, Santayana had released himself not only for flitting from London to Paris to Florence to Venice to Rome but for strenuous mental flights in the bulk of his 30-odd works. The delight of the letters is that Santayana is always ready to stray off the course of his philosophic...
...Toynbee, and man has been trying to get back to that happy state ever since. Speaking to the 250 members of a "Church and Work Congress" of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, N.Y., Professor Toynbee cited two major Christian efforts to reconsecrate work-the Benedictine Rule and the Puritan way of life. "The problem as I see it," he said, "is to keep our work, when once we have consecrated it, in that subordinate relation to our religion to which the very act of consecration has dedicated it." So far, the driving force religion supplies to work has always "drain...
...general American attitude that conventional sexual intercourse is the only "proper" expression of sexual desire-and, worse, the legislating of that attitude-is a hangover from the Puritan fathers, from whom so few of us descended. The prudery and naiveté of such an attitude must also make us a laughingstock in nations of more wisdom and maturity...